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If he is convicted from everything I've read there's a good chance he just gets deported. Meaning his NHL days are over.

Student rush. Upper bowl for $15 most nights. All you need is your student ID.

coming from a twitter account with 1000 followers and no author or sources behind the "article." This makes me laugh. Kenny wouldn't, at least I don't think he would. Besides, any trade bringing a dman in needs a dman going out. I would love to get Yandle though.

It's a shoulder so he can still skate. Shouldn't affect his groin a whole lot.

If he can fill out and add a good amount of muscle, which I think he will, he'll be solid. Whether it's for us or not, I do believe he has a future in the NHL.

I don't really want to rank them, but Backman is going to surprise people. That's all I have on this.

Please tell me you're kidding about the long overdue part. Everyone else was clearly sarcastic but you sound serious.

We're 2-2 in games that ended in overtime this year so you can't really say we suck.

Not a lot of creativity or speed though. I wouldn't be surprised if Toronto's third line simply skated around ours.

We take care of business tonight and Edmonton somehow beats Anaheim and tomorrow morning we'll wake up tops in the league. It feels good to be back.

Has Abdelkader done enough this year to "prove" he can be a top 6 forward? As much as I like him and what he brings as far as grit and going to the dirty areas and as much as hes improved this year, he could still definitely be a spare part. Abby, Pulks, Kindl, probably wouldn't be enough to get the deal done but who knows. AHL scoring leader, a 27 year old borderline top 6 guy who's solid defensively and has been playing in the top 6 for a better offensive team than Arizona, and a young defenseman that could just need a change of scenery. Throw in a second or one of Marchenko/Jensen/Backman and it could work. Arizona gets a jump on their rebuild with a couple solid NHL ready prospects and 2 bonafide NHLers. We get one of the best offensive dmen in the game. I know it's not enough, but I don't want to give up Nyquist yet and I think we have the pieces to not have to. Sure it will probably be more than I listed here, but hopefully not much.

For some reason my brain left me and I thought he signed, which obviously isn't possible. In that case, I'd go with your 2-3-7 choices.

What about Larkin? What's the rules on college players?

Always room for improvement.

I was thinking the same thing. I haven't heard of any maintenance days for him thi year yet that he had so many of last year. A few of those would be great for him I think.

It's for the whole CBA, and yes, you are correct with your Cleary example.

"13.5 Waiver Expiration. The rights granted under this Article to Loan a Player(s) who is otherwise required to clear Regular Waivers to a minor league club expire for any Player(s) who, after clearing Regular Waivers: (i) is not Loaned to a minor league club, or is Recalled from a minor league club (except on emergency Recall) and remains on an NHL roster for 74 ARTICLE 13 13.6-13.9 thirty (30) days (cumulative) or plays ten (10) NHL Games (cumulative), or (ii) is Recalled from a minor league club on emergency Recall and plays in ten (10) NHL Games (cumulative) while on emergency Recall. For purposes of clarity, games played while on regular Recall shall not count towards the ten (10) NHL Games in this subsection (ii)." "13.2 The "Playing Season Waiver Period" shall begin on the twelfth (12th) day prior to the start of the Regular Season and end on the day following the last day of a Club's Playing Season. Subject to the provisions of this Article, the rights to the services of a Player may be Loaned to a club of another league, upon fulfillment of the following conditions, except when elsewhere expressly prohibited: (a) Regular Waivers were requested and cleared during the Playing Season Waiver Period; and (b) the Player has not played in ten (10) or more NHL Games cumulative since Regular Waivers on him were last cleared, and more than thirty (30) days cumulative on an NHL roster have not passed since Regular Waivers on him were last cleared." These are directly from the CBA. I'll sum it up here regarding Callahan. This article is about loaning players to minor league clubs who cleared waivers once, and when you have to pass them through waivers again. Basically, it's about exceptions to the waiver rules. It says a few different things. First, if a player is clears waivers and isn't sent down for 30 days or plays 10 games (whichever is sooner), he must pass through waivers again. Also, as Dickie has said, if he is clears, is sent down, recalled, and stays on the NHL roster for a cumulative 30 days or plays in 10 NHL games He must pass through waivers again. So, we could call him up once this month, once next month, twice in February, and 4 times in March without having to place him on waivers again as long as he is on the roster for less than 30 cumulative days and plays less than 10 games. Also, as far Nestrasil, age of contract signing is the key for why Nestrasil's waiver exemption expired. He got 3 years of exemption because he signed at age 20. It had nothing to do with games played. Ouellet has played 10 games, and signed at 19 (2012), so he got 4 years of exemption. His will expire after he plays 150 more games, or in 2016. I can't get the formatting to copy over right, but here's a link to the CBA. http://cdn.agilitycms.com/nhlpacom/PDF/NHL_NHLPA_2013_CBA.pdf Waivers rules start on page 71. Also, yes, I do think we can be contenders if everything falls into place. Everyone needs to play well. If we get back to playing solid defensive hockey, we don't seem to lose that often. We don't really win convincingly, but we don't lose either. That could pay dividends in the playoffs.

E_prime, but I'm almost 100% positive that you're wrong on the reasoning with your examples. I'm at work now but I'll post more and explain later

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Spare(ish) parts that could have value in a deal for Yandle. Helm, Ericsson, Pulkinnen, one of the D prospects, Kindl, Andersson (no real value I guess) and second and third round picks. We have the pieces to get it done. Helm, Pulks, One of Marchenko/Backman/Jensen, Kindl for cap space and a second? Thats 2 legit NHLers, 2 decent prospects that are almost NHL ready, and a second round pick. Am I absolutely nuts for thinking it could work?

And that, usually, can be shown using advance stats. That's why they're there. To tell more of the story.

If he averaged, over the last 5 years, 2 goals per gamethn yeah I'd say there would be a pretty good shot he'd score 2 goals. Unless you have a better satistical prediction model, in which case I'd love to hear it.

Because a per game estimate is a far better predictor of what they'll do in a single game than their recent season totals would suggest. You'd be correct if they were playing the emtire season together, but they're not.

Whatever we do for the love of all things good can we please keep Nyquist and Datsyuk off the ice together?

So how long until we trade our first round pick for him?